Tag Archives: Judge Roger L. Gregory

A lawyer who sleeps during a “substantial portion” of his client’s criminal trial is depriving his client of his Sixth Amendment right to trial. That’s the law in Virginia and other states in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ...

The 4th Circuit upholds a $2 million award in the first jury verdict arising from multi-district litigation involving more than 70,000 cases against proprietors of transvaginal mesh medical devices; in a case tried in West Virginia federal court, the jury ...

Although the 19-year-old defendant had engaged in sexual activity with his 7-year-old neighbor for several months, the government’s evidence of a single cell phone picture of their sexual activity, deleted from defendant’s phone, was not sufficient to show that defendant ...

In deciding to detain defendant, who said he came to pick up his girlfriend whose car had broken down at a late hour in a parking lot in a high-crime area, a police officer’s observations – that defendant was hurrying ...

The 4th Circuit upholds the constitutionality of statute criminalizing engaging in an illicit sexual act with a minor after traveling in foreign commerce, and affirms the convictions of a Lutheran pastor and acknowledged sex addict who sexually abused young girls ...

In this suit alleging that plaintiff Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as receiver, suffered $216 million in losses due to this North Carolina bank’s failure, the 4th Circuit says the district court erred in granting summary judgment to defendant bank officers ...

In this litigation involving a nursing home lease, assignment of the lease and nonpayment of rent, in which the district court awarded plaintiff owner $2.74 million for breach of the lease and abandonment of the nursing home, the lessor did ...

Under recent Supreme Court jurisprudence, the 4th Circuit holds it can review the district court’s categorization of defendant’s 22 U.S.C. § 2255 motion as an impermissible successive petition without first issuing a Certificate of Appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § ...

A Virginia prison inmate who apparently adheres to his own particular brand of Christianity based on a version of the Bible written by himself has stated claims under the First Amendment and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ...

The 4th Circuit vacates summary judgment for United Airlines in an African-American flight attendant’s hostile environment suit alleging the airlines failed to adequately respond to a racist death threat left in her company mailbox; the district court concluded plaintiff was ...